If we accept and acquiesce in ...

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.
 Mary McLeod Bethune

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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 Laozi
I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.
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 Billy Mills
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.
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 Carlos Castaneda
I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.
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 Monica Crowley
THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose.
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 Morihei Ueshiba

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For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.
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 Mary McLeod Bethune
I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.
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 Mary McLeod Bethune
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.
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 Mary McLeod Bethune
Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.
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 Mary McLeod Bethune